CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Dartford
Dartford has 4.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,525 homes. A 300 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 1,051,000 homes.
Ranks 267 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foxhounds Lane, Southfleet - Battery StorageEcoDev Group Limited | Battery | 300 MW | Refused by Dartford Council in 2024Who can move it: Dartford Council · planning ref 24/00166/FUL |
| Darenth Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemNet Zero Marine Services Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00368/FUL |
| New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage FacilityAton Energy Development (Northfleet) Limited | Battery | 35 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00863/FUL |
| Bluewater Shopping Centre, Upper Thames Walk - Solar Photovoltaic PanelLand Securities Property Limited | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01497/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dartford | 4.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Tonbridge | 11 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Sevenoaks | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Gravesham | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bexleyheath and Crayford | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sevenoaks next door has 50 MW waiting, more than Dartford's 4.7 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.